How to rotate all pages in a PDF document in Node.JS

Rotating PDF pages in Node.JS can certainly be a bit of a chore to set up. If you don’t have a few hours to kill, I’ve got a better solution in mind: an API. Making this switch will pare our implementation time down to mere minutes. Let me lay it out for you:

We start with client installation:

npm install cloudmersive-convert-api-client --save

Now we can use an API key to make an instance, from which we add our function call for editPdfRotateAllPages. From there it just needs a file path and angle of rotation, which must be divisible by 90.

var CloudmersiveConvertApiClient = require('cloudmersive-convert-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.EditPdfApi();
var inputFile = "/path/to/file"; // File | Input file to perform the operation on.
var rotationAngle = 56; // Number | The angle to rotate the page in degrees, must be a multiple of 90 degrees, e.g. 90, 180, 270, or -90, -180, -270, etc.
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.editPdfRotateAllPages(inputFile, rotationAngle, callback);

Shortly after your request, you will have your PDF file back with rotated pages. If you need to rotate a specific subset of pages in your file, we also have the editPdfRotatePageRange function.